Artist Fred Sandback to Exhibit in London's David Zwirner Gallery > January 10 - Febraury 13

Installation view at David Zwirner, London

Untitled (Four-part Vertical Construction), 1986

Light blue and red-brown acrylic yarn

Ceiling height x 16 x 25 inches (Ceiling height x 40.6 x 63.5 cm)

© 2012 Fred Sandback Archive; courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London

David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of work by American artist Fred Sandback (1943-2003).  On view in the gallery’s London space, the exhibition will feature a selection of important sculptures and drawings exemplifying the scope of the artist’s singular and influential career. Major solo museum exhibitions in the UK include the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, (1999); Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2005); Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2006); and Whitechapel Art Gallery (2011).

 

Though he used metal rod and elastic cord early in his career, Sandback soon dispensed with those materials to employ acrylic yarn to create works that address their physical surroundings. By stretching lengths of yarn horizontally, vertically, or diagonally at different scales and in varied configurations, the artist developed a singular body of work that elaborated on the phenomenological experience of space and volume with unwavering consistency and ingenuity.

Untitled (Sculptural Study, Six-part Construction) (detail), ca. 1977/2008. Black acrylic yarn.

 

 

About Fred Sandback (1943-2003)

Sandback’s work has been exhibited internationally since the late 1960s. His first solo shows were held at Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, and Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, both in 1968, followed by an exhibition at Dwan Gallery, New York, in 1969, while the artist was still a graduate student at Yale School of Art and Architecture. His work is on permanent display at Dia:Beacon, New York, and was the subject of an extensive survey exhibition organized in 2005 by the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz (which traveled to the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and the Neue Galerie am Joanneum, Graz, in 2006). In 2011, the artist’s work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, dedicated its entire building to a solo exhibition. Sandback’s work is represented in many public collections including the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and The Art Institute of Chicago.

 

David Zwirner has shown Fred Sandback’s work since 2004. The gallery recently organized an exhibition of important sculptures and drawings from each decade of the artist’s career at its New York location. The exhibition in London will be the fifth solo show of the artist’s work presented by the gallery.